Sometimes I come here just to be a lost mariner  
  but I am never lost:  
  there are the snowflakes frozen to the porthole of a jewelry store,  
  here is the treasure chest open to a single pearl  
  laid on a velvet slab,  
  there is the plashing of faces in the aisles  
  and the row of lockers stuffed with the coats and hats of the drowned  
  and it is night, and the moon rows over  
  the gentle waters of the parking lot.
A Grammar to Waking: Poems (ed. Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2006) - ISBN: 9780887484476























